Simply Managing
Author | : Henry Mintzberg |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2013-09-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781609949259 |
ISBN-13 | : 1609949250 |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The Essence of Managing Henry Mintzberg appreciates that managers are busy people. So he has taken his classic book Managing, done some updating, and distilled its essence into a lean 176 pages of text. The essence of the book remains the same: what Mintzberg learned from observing twenty-nine managers in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. Simply Managing considers the intense dynamics of this job as well as its inescapable conundrums, for example: • How is anyone supposed to think, let alone think ahead, in this frenetic job? • Are leaders really more important than managers? • Where has all the judgment gone? • Is email destroying management practice? • How can managers connect when their job disconnects them from what they are managing? If you read only one book about managing, this should be it!